utumn Kelly of Semmes, Ala., makes a face as she tries to avoid stepping on oil as she walks down the beach in the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge on the Fort Morgan Penisula June 6, 2010. (Press-Register/Kate Mercer)MOBILE -- As tar balls made it through Dauphin Island's Katrina Cut, heading toward vulnerable marshes today, Gov. Bob Riley said that the federal government did not keep its promise to give the state over the weekend whatever it needed to protect the coastline from oil.

U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Mobile, who joined Riley at the oil response facility in Mobile, said federal officials -- namely President Barack Obama and Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen -- are favoring other parts of the Gulf Coast, particularly Louisiana, over Alabama.

"It's becoming increasingly apparent that political decisions are being made to protect one part of the Gulf of Mexico, but not the other parts," Bonner said, adding that is "totally inexcusable and totally unacceptable."

Riley said Friday that Obama, who visited Louisiana, ordered the U.S. Coast Guard to get Alabama what it needs to protect its shores from invading oil. Obama invited Riley to come meet with him in Washington D.C., this week if he did not get what he requested.

The governor met with Allen, the head of the government's spill response, Saturday and came up with a plan. That would have involved placing down two, sometimes three, layers of boom at the entrances to the estuaries of Mobile and Baldwin counties, and shutting off Perdido Pass.

It also would have meant increasing the number of boats performing skimming operations tenfold.

But by this evening, it was apparent there was not enough boom or skimmer boats available for Alabama's use, Riley said.

"We're still in exactly the same place we were two weeks ago," Riley said during a news conference. "We have no protection for Baldwin County's beaches. We have no protection for Mobile Bay. We have no protection for Dauphin Island. We have no protection for some of the most sensitive areas we have going into the Causeway."